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- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
for the introduction of health products in developing countries where consumers may be uncertain about product quality, and price subsidies are common policy instruments. Through a field experiment selling... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market Authors:Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole, and Shayak Sarkar Abstract We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate two competing views of the role of financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authors take the mystery out of preparing for and executing negotiations—whether they involve multimillion-dollar deals or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
Apple's Tim Cook is one of an increasing number of CEOs using the corporate bully pulpit to promote social views. @iStock In their paper Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment, the researchers address two key... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
In the conclusion we discuss aspects of the experience of the gastroenterology labor market that seem to generalize fairly widely. Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226032887 Deferred Acceptance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known, however, about the everyday psychological experience and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary individuals. Yet evidence is mounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
really learn how to think, and at a P&Gamp, you learn classical branding and positioning and market attack plans. You get the experience, then you take it to the high-tech world. I think that experience is just a phenomenal... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
to investigate the psychological consequences and performance benefits of connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work. In a longitudinal field experiment of fruit harvesters, we find that though beneficiary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point greater increase in the volume of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
including the behavior of peers and co-workers, the goals set for employees, or even the amount of lighting in a room. This research is already having an important impact on business management. Many leading scholars in the management View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Using both field and laboratory data, we find that grocery spending decreases with religiosity. Specifically, we document that people who live in more religious U.S. counties spend less money on groceries and make fewer unplanned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
most interesting one there is. And so the chance to write about him was an opportunity I didn't want to give up. Q: HBS is famous for field-based research where faculty members go out into the field and observe a company or workers or... View Details